[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57032-57033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28534]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 45-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 42--Orlando, FL; Application for Subzone 
Status, Mitsubishi Power Systems, Inc., Plant, (Power Generation 
Turbine Components) Orlando, FL

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, grantee of FTZ 
42, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the power generation 
turbine components

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manufacturing plant of Mitsubishi Power Systems, Inc. (MPS) (a 
subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., of Japan), located in 
Orlando, Florida. The application was submitted pursuant to the 
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-
81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was 
formally filed on November 6, 2001.
    The MPS plant (15 acres/109,000 sq.ft.) is located within the 
Orlando Central Park at 2287 Premier Row, Orlando (Orange County), 
Florida. The facility (350 employees) is used to contract repair and 
manufacture combustion baskets, transition pieces, turbine blades and 
turbine vanes used a components for simple-cycle and advanced combined-
cycle large power generation turbines (HTSUS# 8411.99), and to 
distribute similar imported components for export and the U.S. market. 
The production process involves inspection, welding, ceramic coating 
and repair. In addition to the component production, the application 
indicates that complete rotor assemblies would be repaired and/or 
manufactured at the facility in the future. The components are 
manufactured from cold-formed nickel alloy plate (HTSUS 7506.20; duty 
rate--3.0%) and cobalt alloy (8105.90; 3.7%) sourced from abroad. 
Domestic purchases of these alloys are planned.
    FTZ procedures would exempt MPS from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign materials used in export production. On its domestic sales and 
exports to NAFTA markets, the company would be able to choose the duty 
rate that applies to finished combustion baskets, transition pieces, 
turbine blades, turbine vanes and rotor assemblies (2.4%) for the 
foreign-sourced nickel and cobalt alloys noted above. MPS would be able 
to defer Customs duty payments on the foreign-origin finished power 
generation turbine components that would be admitted to the proposed 
subzone for U.S. distribution. Duties would be deferred or reduced on 
foreign production equipment admitted to the proposed subzone until 
which time it becomes operational. The application indicates that 
subzone status would help improve the plant's international 
competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the following addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building--
Suite 4100W, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005; or,
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is January 14, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 29, 
2002).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
address No.1 listed above and at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export 
Assistance Center, Suite 1270, 200 E. Robinson Street, Orlando, FL 
32801.

    Dated: November 6, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-28534 Filed 11-13-01; 8:45 am]
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